Opinions, tips, and news orbiting Microsoft
First published on TECHNET on Aug 12, 2009
One of our collegues posted an interesting blog entry on CA scalability testing:
http://blogs.technet.com/wincat/archive/2009/08/10/scale-testing-the-world-s-largest-pki-all-runnin… Continue reading CA Performace testing
First published on TECHNET on Aug 09, 2009
The following problem affects a Certification authority running on the 64-bit edition of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
The problem does … Continue reading AD CS Installation is Crashing on x64 Platform
First published on TECHNET on Aug 07, 2009
It came to my attention that there is little understanding regarding the relationship between archived private keys and Key Recovery Agent (KRA) certificates. With this blog post I would l… Continue reading Understanding Key Archival
First published on TECHNET on Aug 05, 2009
The Internet Information Server (IIS) and Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) provide wizards in the administration user interface to request and install SSL certificat… Continue reading How to create a web server SSL certificate manually
First published on TECHNET on Jul 26, 2009
I came across two valuable blog posts from my co-worker Morello. The articles have been posted to the
Windows Server Customer engineering
blog – check them out!
First published on TECHNET on Jun 16, 2009
Strong key protection is one of the most misunderstood features in Windows security. In this post I will attempt to demystify it. I will also try to address some of the misconceptions abou… Continue reading What is a strong key protection in Windows?
First published on TECHNET on Jun 11, 2009
The TechNet Magazine released a new article about the
PKI Enhancements in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
in the May 2009 issue.
Continue reading PKI Enhancements in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
First published on TECHNET on May 14, 2009
Back in the year 2003 we have published information about the CA performance and how it is impacted by various factors. The TechNet article is called
Evaluating CA Capacity, Perfor… Continue reading CA performance